regal set piece. a sense of the scale of the security operation on display too, with a controlled explosion outside buckingham palace and a man arrested after reports of sometone throwing items of someone throwing items possibly shotgun cartridges through the gates. when the big moment comes this weekend, whether you re planning to celebrate, be performatively indifferent, ignore, or protest, it will be coloured by many things from where you live to how old you are. in the run up to saturday, a stately procession of pollsters has been filling in the detail and giving a sense of whether, long term, generational differences could spell trouble for the crown. overall, the country is still very comfortable with the monarchy. an ashcroft polljust out suggests 56% would vote to keep it in any referendum, as opposed to less than a quarter who would vote to abolish it. but in the last few decades,
there, and he threw several items into the grounds of the palace. they have described them as being shotgun cartridges. there were no explosions, no one was injured. that man was detained. police say he had with him what they believed was a suspicious bag so they put a cordon in place and later a controlled explosion was carried out. no one was injured. the man has been detained. i understand it is not being treated as a terrorist related incident and is being described tonight as a mental health related incident. the palace say the king and queen were not in when it happened. but we have four days to go before the coronation and there will be increased nervousness among police and security services as we approach saturday. just in front of the palace the mall is quiet because of the time but i was here yesterday and it was busy on both sides. people are free to move about and that s the environment to the organisers want but nonetheless
taking place right now. that s the queen victoria memorial. the queen victoria memorial is located in front of buckingham palace and comprises the dominion gates canada gate, australia gate and south and west africa gates, the memorial gardens and a vast central monument commemoration. just to say, all of this is taking place an hour or so after police in london have arrested a man outside a buckingham palace after he threw a number of items suspected to be shotgun cartridges into the palace grounds. the man was found to be in possession of a suspicious bag and a controlled explosion was carried out. of course, we have been following
A man was arrested after throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into the palace grounds, leading to a controlled explosion outside Buckingham Palace. The Metropolitan Police took precautionary measures to ensure public safety, and no injuries were reported. The investigation is ongoing.
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